Good and inspiring
Sometimes it just takes the breath away. This isn’t some pink-hair young adult, this is a middle-aged man with a book to advertise, and this is how he presents himself to the world.
He brags of standing outside a feminist meeting with a bunch of people shouting in order to drown them out and disrupt their meeting. He brags of it.
“Good and inspiring” to try to shout down women meeting to discuss women’s needs and rights.
Takes the breath away, I tell you.
“luv 2 tweet incautiously about going on a protest and spend 24 hours learning the full extent to which organised transphobia invokes the terror and trauma inflicted by patriarchy on the most vulnerable women …”
Is this guy living in permanent Opposite Day or something? Organised transphobia – women having a meeting about their experiences at the hands of abusers, and the importance of having some spaces like crisis shelters be sex specific. Inflicting terror and trauma – this was best witnessed in marchers in their hostility and desire to intimidate. Most vulnerable women – male women are not women, and even if they were, they would not be the most vulnerable. Their fantasies are certainly very fragile, but the same could be said of any belief not reflective of reality.
As a former middle-aged man myself, I don’t have that high an opinion of them. There’s a lot of arrogance that many of them have, because, well, you know, MEN.
Self-righteousness is clearly a very powerful, and addictive drug.
So he spent 24 hours talking to the protesters and learning their complaints AND
He “supposes” that’s what was going on inside. He didn’t “learn” it directly,though, did he? Is this guy an historian? Opportunity to learn from a direct source and he muffed it. No wonder he likes his villains dead.
Looking at the photos of these “protestors” I am wondering how many are wife beaters, rapists, paedophiles, or just straight out thugs.
@Sastra #4
Pure projection if you ask me. Who is hating, transgressing boundaries, and terrorizing others? Who is indulging in the urge to hurt and humiliate? Who is engaging in vulgar and ancient resentment of lesser, alien-looking beings? Who is expressing pure undiluted cynicism of taking women’s pain and turning it into cruelty? The hurting, harming, cruelty, cynicism, terrorizing, violation of boundaries, vulgar resentment, humiliation, etc. is unidirectional. Women are not doing anything to trans people. Trans people and other gender extremists are doing it to women.